10:7<\/p>\n
Edward gazed up the staircase and paused. An entrance strategy, that’s what I need. A bunny can’t very well burst in on the scene without an invitation, can he. Might cause all sorts of complications. Edward recalled that unfortunate series events that spawned from the locked door and the survivalist family\u2026 no, no let us not repeat that shall we.<\/p>\n
Still, he thought to himself as he slowly hopped up the stairs, one needs to be prepared for anything.<\/p>\n
At the first landing Edward again paused on a remarkably clean brown carpet and looked up the remaining flight of rose marble stairs. Tiny flecks of gold and streaks of brown ran through the cream stone and the overriding tone of pink seemed to come from the play between the dim stairway lights and the cream and the brown stone rather from any actually rose coloured impurities.<\/p>\n
Ah, look at me, thinking about staircases and marble varieties. I do believe I am procrastinating. Still, when considering what is apparent and discernible, it is important to remember that not everything is uniform. Edward recalled one of his first visits to the Met. He had been enjoying the Byzantine galleries immensely \u2014 that being a period and geographical area that he had very little experience with \u2014 when he had turned into the crypts in search of an old coptic manuscript. This unusual room was carved from the space under the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Stairs.<\/p>\n
Unfinished red brick arches created a series of spans that supported the stunning staircase he had seen from the main entrance. The staircase, designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Richard Morris Hunt in the late 1800s, had been constructed as a part of the new entrance hall and facade. An interesting fact was that Richard died before construction started and the edifice was completed by his son\u2026<\/p>\n
Right. Procrastination. Well.<\/p>\n
But still, the point was that, upon entering the crypts and turning towards the low wooden and glass case that held the ancient tome that was his goal, Edward had been faced with a series of descending roof blocks made from rough hewn stone. It had taken a moment, but then Edward realized he was staring at the underside of the stairs. While the tops had been meticulously, carved, levelled and polished to give visitors the impression the treads were marble slabs a mere two inches high, the stairs themselves were in fact giant blocks of marble that incorporated the tread, the riser and an uneven and unseen amount of unfinished stone that descended in varying amounts below the finished part of the staircase.<\/p>\n
Remarkable and unforeseeably beautiful.<\/p>\n
Edward had spent not a small amount of time staring at those man made, yet seemingly chaotic patterns of stone and contemplating their eerie beauty. So much time that he had in fact been herded out of the museum at closing time without completing his sojourn in the Byzantine era; a fact he had rectified in a later visit.<\/p>\n
But the humbling sight of what lay beneath the grandness of the upper gallery had remained with Edward and he, forever after, had much less of a tendency to ignore what may lie beneath the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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